Civil War Concentration Camps
During the Civil War, authorities in Natchez, Mississippi, forced tens of thousands of freed slaves into camps built in what is known as "The Devil's Punchbowl". Historians estimate that in one year following Union troops arrivals in Natchez, up to 20,000 freed slaves died in contraband camps below steep bluffs.
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